Describing Rhode Island Schools

Assignment

Resources

These websites feature data collected about the area's communities, districts, and schools:
You are required to include citations in APA format for the information that you decide to include in your report. You should use Zotero to collect and post all citations! Last year's reports are here: EDC 102 Context Reports - F07

Step 1: What information should our reports include?

After exploring the various data sites, we then met in large groups to decide on questions that we need to answer about each school, its district, and its community:
Note: Your reports can include information not in these questions.

Step 2: Draft Context Reports

  • a. Use the TEMPLATE called "EDC 102 Context Report F08" to begin your context report from the links below. You can preview this format here.
  • b. List of Reports by Authors

Step 3: Peer Edit a Context Report or Two (or Three)

Use the TEMPLATE called "EDC 102 Context Report Rubric" edit a classmate's report. Each writer will have the opportunity to "tip" editors that make a true difference in their final project, so the more help you give, the more points you can earn. You can preview the evaluation rubric here.